Cognitive Level of Analysis

Examples of student work...

TED ON MEMORY SUMMARIES
LO 8 - Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process - student responses
PADLET POSTER ON TECH RESEARCH LO 10

Cognitive Level of Analysis Learning Objectives (these are the exam questions!)

• Outline principles that define the cognitive level of analysis
• Explain how principles that define the cognitive level of analysis may be demonstrated in research
• Discuss how and why particular research methods are used at the cognitive level of analysis
• Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies at the cognitive level of analysis
• Evaluate schema theory with reference to research studies
• Evaluate two models or theories of one cognitive process
• Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process
• Discuss how social or cultural factors affect one cognitive process
• With reference to relevant research studies, to what extent is cognitive process reliable?
• Discuss the use of technology in investigating cognitive process
• To what extent do cognitive and biological factors interact in emotion?
• Evaluate one theory of how emotion may affect one cognitive process

Resources - Eye witness testimony and memory (LO#6)

Find out about the Loftus and Palmer (1974) experiment Interactive site (videos, quizzes, etc..)
The Loftus study on eye witness testimony - written

Cognitive Resources on Emotion

• Emotion – Collection of articles relating to the psychology of emotion written for and collated by Time Magazine.
• Daniel Goleman on compassion video link

General Resources

• Attention Alert: A Study on Distraction Reveals Some Surprises
• How Exercise Can Jog the Memory
• Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists?
• Want A Less Fussy, Easier to Soothe, Kinder Child? Make Music!
• The Amygdala Made Me Do It
• Role of Meditation in Brain Development Gains Scientific Support
• Phys Ed: How Muscle Workouts May Boost Brainpower
• Multitasking – not so bad for you after all?
• Tiger Mom Approach Makes Cubs Depressed, a Study Says
• Losing Your Religion? Analytic Thinking Weakens Religious Belief
• Mind and Body: Investigating the Health and Science of Meditation
• Mind and Body: Investigating the Health and Science of Meditation
• How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain
• Matisse was a neuroscientist
• The power of perceptions: Imagining the reality you want

SUMMER PROJECT RESOURCES

• Education, Creativity, and Prosperity: East versus West
• Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children
• Matching Teaching Styles with Learning Styles in East Asian Contexts
• Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans
• A Western Perspective on Teaching Taiwanese Students- Cultural Differences in Higher Education

KEY TERMS

Amygdala

Bottom-up Processing
Chunking
Cognition
Distortions
Emotional Memory
Emotion-focused Coping
Episodic Memory
Explicit Memory
False Memories
Fight or Flight
Flashbulb Memory
Hippocampus
Implicit Memory
Mental Representations
Multi-store Model of Memory
Perception
Problem-focused Coping
Procedural Memory
Reconstructive Memory
Repression
Schema/Schema Theory
Semantic Memory
Social Comparison Theory
Stereotyping
Top-down Processing
Working Memory Model